The first table below looks at the demand for the Desktop Support Specialist role in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Desktop Support Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the England region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Desktop Support Specialist
Rank 818 857 840
Rank change year-on-year
+39 -17
Permanent jobs requiring a Desktop Support Specialist 12 6 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.012% 0.005% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% 0.006% 0.017%
Number of salaries quoted 12 5 5
Average salary £42,500 £26,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+63.46% -25.71%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £24,800 £24,800
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £57,500 £35,600
UK excluding London average salary - £23,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year
- -23.33%
All Job Titles
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
95250 107641 110251
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 94.45% 94.76% 94.31%
Number of salaries quoted 80210 93021 93605
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Desktop Support Specialist
UK

Desktop Support Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Desktop Support Specialist across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

England Desktop Support Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Desktop Support Specialist
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Desktop Support Specialist across the England region.

England Desktop Support Specialist Salary Trend

Desktop Support Specialist
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Desktop Support Specialist across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England Desktop Support Specialist Salary Histogram

Desktop Support Specialist
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Desktop Support Specialist within the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +38 12 £42,500 +63.46%
Desktop Support Specialist
UK

Desktop Support Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region that cited Desktop Support Specialist in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Desktop Support Specialist in their job title.

1 23 (100.00%) Windows
2 14 (60.87%) Windows 7
3 13 (56.52%) Apple
3 13 (56.52%) Microsoft
4 12 (52.17%) Blackberry
5 11 (47.83%) MS Office
6 10 (43.48%) Citrix
7 9 (39.13%) MS Excel
7 9 (39.13%) Front Office
8 8 (34.78%) Lotus Notes
8 8 (34.78%) Active Directory
8 8 (34.78%) Lotus
9 7 (30.43%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (30.43%) TCP/IP
9 7 (30.43%) Windows XP
9 7 (30.43%) Project Planning
10 6 (26.09%) MS PowerPoint
10 6 (26.09%) DHCP
11 5 (21.74%) VoIP
11 5 (21.74%) VPN
11 5 (21.74%) DNS
11 5 (21.74%) HP
11 5 (21.74%) Internet
11 5 (21.74%) MCITP
12 4 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
12 4 (17.39%) Finance
12 4 (17.39%) VMware
12 4 (17.39%) MCSE
13 3 (13.04%) VBA
13 3 (13.04%) Dell

Desktop Support Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region that cited Desktop Support Specialist in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Desktop Support Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (8.696%) .NET
1 2 (8.696%) ASP.NET
1 2 (8.696%) COM
1 2 (8.696%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 8 (34.78%) Lotus Notes
2 2 (8.696%) SharePoint
2 2 (8.696%) MS Exchange
2 2 (8.696%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (8.696%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (4.348%) Lotus Domino
Applications
1 11 (47.83%) MS Office
2 9 (39.13%) MS Excel
3 6 (26.09%) MS PowerPoint
4 3 (13.04%) MS Visio
5 2 (8.696%) Acrobat
Communications & Networking
1 7 (30.43%) TCP/IP
2 6 (26.09%) DHCP
3 5 (21.74%) VPN
3 5 (21.74%) DNS
3 5 (21.74%) Internet
3 5 (21.74%) VoIP
4 3 (13.04%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (13.04%) Wireless
5 2 (8.696%) WAN
5 2 (8.696%) LDAP
5 2 (8.696%) LAN
5 2 (8.696%) MPLS
5 2 (8.696%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.696%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.696%) MSI
General
1 9 (39.13%) Front Office
2 4 (17.39%) Finance
3 3 (13.04%) Back Office
3 3 (13.04%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (8.696%) Financial Institution
4 2 (8.696%) Local Government
Miscellaneous
1 12 (52.17%) Blackberry
2 3 (13.04%) PDA
2 3 (13.04%) Biotechnology
2 3 (13.04%) iPad
3 2 (8.696%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 23 (100.00%) Windows
2 14 (60.87%) Windows 7
3 7 (30.43%) Windows XP
4 2 (8.696%) Mac OS X
4 2 (8.696%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (8.696%) SUSE
4 2 (8.696%) Debian
4 2 (8.696%) Mac OS X Server
4 2 (8.696%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (8.696%) CentOS
4 2 (8.696%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) Project Planning
2 3 (13.04%) Web Development
2 3 (13.04%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (13.04%) Software Distribution
2 3 (13.04%) ITIL
2 3 (13.04%) Change Management
2 3 (13.04%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) VBA
2 2 (8.696%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.696%) C#
2 2 (8.696%) Perl
2 2 (8.696%) SQL
2 2 (8.696%) T-SQL
2 2 (8.696%) VBScript
2 2 (8.696%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (21.74%) MCITP
3 4 (17.39%) MCSE
4 3 (13.04%) Degree
5 2 (8.696%) MCSA
5 2 (8.696%) MCDST
System Software
1 8 (34.78%) Active Directory
2 4 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.696%) Hyper-V
3 2 (8.696%) XenApp
3 2 (8.696%) XenServer
3 2 (8.696%) XenDesktop
3 2 (8.696%) Samba
3 2 (8.696%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (8.696%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 2 (8.696%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 2 (8.696%) SCCM
1 2 (8.696%) Tivoli Endpoint Manager
Vendors
1 13 (56.52%) Microsoft
1 13 (56.52%) Apple
2 10 (43.48%) Citrix
3 8 (34.78%) Lotus
4 5 (21.74%) HP
5 4 (17.39%) VMware
6 3 (13.04%) Mitel
6 3 (13.04%) Dell
7 2 (8.696%) Adobe
7 2 (8.696%) Red Hat
7 2 (8.696%) Bloomberg
7 2 (8.696%) AppSense